TIME & EMOTIONS

TIME & EMOTIONS

Time is an artifact of imagination, prompted by the experience of space/time (relativity theory of Einstein). Time is eternity, which means no time. So, no event can cause another. Cause and effect is an illusion of the mind and senses since this would include the factor of time, which is unreal.

Therefore Physical, Emotional and Spiritual issues occur at the same time. One type may be more pronounced than the others but they do occur at the same time. So dealing with emotions means dealing with the other two at the same time.

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Ayurveda - The Science of Life

Ayurveda - The Science of Life
Ayurveda is a 5,000-year-old system of natural healing. Tibetan medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine both have their roots in Ayurveda. Early Greek medicine also embraced many concepts originally described in the classical ayurvedic medical texts dating back thousands of years.

Ayurveda is much more than a system of treating illness. Ayurveda is a science of life (Ayur = life,Veda = science or knowledge). It offers wisdom to help people stay vital while realizing their full potential. Health is the balanced and dynamic integration between our environment, body, mind, and spirit. Ayurveda provides guidelines on ideal daily and seasonal routines, diet, behavior and the use of our senses.

Human beings are part of nature. Ayurveda describes 3 fundamental energies that govern our inner and outer environments: movement, transformation, and structure. Known in Sanskrit as Vata (Wind), Pitta (Fire), and Kapha (Earth), these primary forces are responsible for the characteristics of our mind and body. Each of us has a unique proportion of these three forces that shapes our nature. If Vata is dominant in our system, we tend to be thin, light, enthusiastic, energetic, and changeable. If Pitta predominates in our nature, we tend to be intense, intelligent, and goal-oriented and we have a strong appetite for life. When Kapha prevails, we tend to be easy-going, methodical, and nurturing. Although each of us has all three forces, most people have one or two elements that predominate.

For each element, there is a balanced and imbalanced state. When Vata is balanced, a person is lively and creative, but when there is too much movement in the system, a person tends to experience anxiety, insomnia, dry skin, constipation, and difficulty focusing. When Pitta is functioning in a balanced manner, a person is warm, friendly, disciplined, a good leader, and a good speaker. When Pitta is out of balance, a person tends to be compulsive and irritable and may suffer from indigestion or an inflammatory condition. When Kapha is balanced, a person is sweet, supportive, and stable but when Kapha is out of balance, a person may experience sluggishness, weight gain, and sinus congestion.

An important goal of Ayurveda is to identify a person’s ideal state of balance, determine where they are out of balance, and offer interventions using diet, herbs, aromatherapy, massage treatments, yoga, music, and meditation to reestablish balance.

DISCOVERING YOURSELF!

DISCOVERING YOURSELF!

Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. When the mind refuses to flow with life, when it gets stuck at the banks, life becomes a problem.
Flowing with life, means acceptance, letting go. Letting come what comes and go what goes. Keep moving, flowing. Allow life to carry you along. Do not desire, do not fear, do not get stuck. Simply observe the actual, as and when it happens. You are not what happens, you are only to whom it happens.
The wind of desire, the wind of pleasure and pain, stirs the mind. Then, a reflection of the real You appears in the mind. You appear restless. It is not the real You that is restless. Your reflection in the mind appears restless because your mind is restless. Just like the reflection of the moon in water stirred by the wind.
All is in the mind. Desire, pleasure, pain. The real You stands beyond the mind, aware, but unconcerned. Discover the real You. Learn how to still the mind. Learn to meditate!

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DEMOCRACY AND YOU!

DEMOCRACY!
Your representatives, the politicians, need lots of money to be able to persuade you electing them to power, using the media. It is a huge scale commercial and indirect media control, as a result. The cost is paid by the elite few, the ruling class. They never loose, as they can afford to buy all possibility, all parties, all politicians. They are all on their payroll. They even own or control the media. To them it makes no difference who wins an election. Needless to say that they are not after your best interests, or the country's, but theirs, at your expense!
Your choice, your vote, is not serving your interests, nor the country's, only theirs. It is influenced by advertisement, it is based on false impressions, crafted by the political parties and the politicians and projected by the media. You can have first hand experience, a direct opinion, of someone you personally know, of someone living in your neighbourhood, of someone you interact with in your everyday environment. But your vote is in effect the result of manipulation, of false projections aiming to deceive you, by using crafted opinion.
It is not that you don't know. No, this is not the issue. The issue is that you elect to play their game, you knowingly join their side, hoping to gain personally at the expense of others, your neighbour, your colleague, at the expense of the whole, the country, the majority. Even your indifference, your inertia, suits them fine. No wonder then that we are where we are. No wonder that you are where you are. Because contrary to what you may believe or think, your personal interest is inseparable from that of the whole, of the majority and the nation or country!

COMMANDING THE MOMENT TO REMAIN

One night we were sitting after dinner looking across the lake. The silence, broken only by the goat bells, the stars dimmed in the velvet of the night by the peaceful flaring of his cigar.

Suddenly he said: "Out of a life of long and varied experience, the most valuable piece of advice i could hand on to you is to know how to command the moment to remain"

Winston Churchill to his daughter Sarah

Meditation helps you command the moment to remain.

CANDIDA ALBICANS

CANDIDA ALBICANS

Candida is a common yeast present in our environment that usually does not cause any major health issues. However, if your immune system is suppressed you may have difficulty maintaining defenses against candida, which can cause serious infections. Most people with candida are better off by thinking of "accumulated toxicity" rather than infection. Due to a weak digestive or metabolic strength, the body accumulates toxins that inhibit vitality and immunity.

People with candida can follow these steps for 40 days:
1. Regular, twice-daily relaxation, contemplation, nature walks.
2. Eat a healthy, natural diet with few fats. In general, favor warm, light foods that have pungent, bitter, and astringent tastes. Reduce foods having the sweet, sour, and salty tastes.
3. Take two triphala tablets twice a day and one guggulu tablet twice a day. Triphala and guggulu help strengthen digestion and release toxins.
4. Drink ginger tea several times a day to help clear toxins from the body’s channels of circulation.
5. Drink half a cup of kefir, three times a day, before your meals.
6. Avoid snacking between meals.

If after 40 days you still feel your immune system is vulnerable, there are several immune-strengthening ayurvedic herbs that you can take to replenish your body’s defense mechanisms: ashwagandha, guduchi, and amalaki. Choose organic, wild grown and certified products.

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ON CHOOSING A PATH

Choose to walk on a path that has a heart!

FATIGUE, LOW ENERGY?

FATIGUE, LOW ENERGY?

Ask yourself and understand what is happening in your life:
• Am I happy and enthusiastic about my job?
• Do I like and respect the people I work with? Do they like and respect me?
• How is my appetite? What am I eating?
• Am I exercising regularly?
• How is my elimination?
• How well am I sleeping at night?
• Are my most intimate relationships nourishing?
• Can I openly communicate my feelings and needs to my family and friends?

Based on your understanding and your responses to these questions, take steps to eliminate the toxins that are preventing you from experiencing the flow of vital energy and joy in your life. As you release the physical and emotional toxins, you will gradually but steadily recapture the vitality you have been missing.

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SUFFERING FROM THE SAME ISSUES

SUFFERING FROM THE SAME ISSUES

The details of individual situations vary, but everyone who feels stuck or in pain, is suffering from the same problem: Contracted awareness. With fear and constriction, every step forward feels like a battle. You keep doing more of what never worked in the first place, and as frustration mounts, you feel more and more exhausted. As Albert Einstein said, “No problem can ever be solved at the level of awareness at which it was created.”

When awareness expands, you no longer feel fearful, and love and fresh ideas have space to grow. In this state, solutions spontaneously emerge. Instead of trying to rely on the limited ego or mind, you are guided by a source within, a source of peace, clarity and wisdom. With clearer vision, you no longer feel confused. At the level of pure awareness, no problems exist. You are aligned with the infinite field of all possibilities. There is no struggle, and your desires are spontaneously fulfilled. It may seem a long time to reach pure awareness, but at every moment, pure awareness is in contact with you, sending creative impulses.

All that matters is how open you are!

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YOU ARE IN CONTROL!

Ask yourself, are you in control of life?
I am not suggesting that we remain passive, do nothing.
We need to take responsibility for our lives, act, make every effort, give our best self. Without action there is no interaction and therefore not many possibilities to materialize.
"We are not in control" means that having done your best, we do not insist in defining the result. This is beyond our control and the harder we try to define the result the less content we are with life!

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SEE FURTHER!

See further, see deeper, see through the eyes of the heart!

TO STAY HAPPY!

To stay happy, you need to step out of your comfort zone often, change often, exceed yourself often!

ATTACHMENT!

Attachment is when our mind thinks that anything at all, is ours, for ever.
Nothing is ours, our own life is not ours, our loved ones are not ours, our possessions are not ours. Remaining unattached means playing, enjoying the toys of life, whilst always remembering they do not belong to us.

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PLAY THE GAME!

Life is a game to be played, to be enjoyed.
When enjoying a game you don't think that you may get injured or that you may loose.
Life is a game.
Enjoy it!

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YOU ALREADY KNOW IT!

If someting is over, if it is dead, leave. Do not continue watering a dead flower.
If you feel that you have done all that is possible, given your circumstances, if you feel that you cannot love any deeper, beyond selfishness or judgment, if there is nothing left to admire, to inspire you, you are most likely watering a dead flower.
Deep inside, beyond the noise of the mind, you know it.
You don't need me to say anything else!

Nicos